Would you rather start hormones pre puberty or get srs?

[GhostTown11]

In a scenario where this was the either or outcome

[rachl]

No one should perform SRS on pre-pubescent children. Even if we ignore the informed consent issue, the techniques require fully grown tissue. You wouldn't want pre-puberty SRS: it would require multiple surgeries (just look at what intersex children have to go through).

HRT; no contest.

[GhostTown11]

Lmao pre puberty hrt here too. What I meant is you could either start hormones at like 12 or start at 18 and get srs. However, if you chose starting at 12 you would never get srs.

[King Malachite]

Hormones

No traumitizing periods and less chance of getting fetures I hate?  I'm there!

[GhostTown11]

Hormones

No traumitizing periods and less chance of getting fetures I hate?  I'm there!

Ahh! What are you doing here? MAN ON THE LAND!!!

[LadySerraphym]

This one is easy for me to answer....If we are talking me now, I would choose SRS since the pre-puberty HRT would nullify my children and there is nothing I would not do for them. However, if we are talking me deciding back in my pre-puberty days I would have most assuredly chosen the HRT.

[Carbon]

I don't even feel strongly about SRS. I used to think I definitely didn't want it and would be happy just after HRT, now I wonder if it's something that would start to bother me more. But definitely I want HRT more at any point in my life.

I guess I could get black market estrogen for not too expensive if I had somehow had SRS pre puberty. In monetary terms that might be the best bet.

[A]

HRT, without a question. A full life that is much more normal > a normal sex life. I'm not even so interested in sex anyway. I would be dysphoric about my genitals, but that would probably be a lesser evil.

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

Ahh! What are you doing here? MAN ON THE LAND!!!

Grabs Malachite  MINE!

Oh sorry.  HRT pre puberty definitely.  SRS would have been about 20 and 38 years as a full fledged woman.

[SourCandy]

HRT would have probably made more of an impact when I was pre puberty. And even now I think HRT would mean more for me in the long run.

[~RoadToTrista~]

SRS no contest. It is important to me and if I started pre-puberty I'd never be able to have kids, also important to me. Plus I don't really look that masculine, even with my insecurities I think I can pass right now even without HRT if I worked at it, the only reason I'd consider pre-puberty hormones is because voice training is a bitch, but even that's not enough, lolz

[CryssL]

SRS for me.

[Michelle G]

Pre-puberty...I would have been a pretty hot looking happy girl if I could have started that early!!!

[Julie Wilson]

Hormones pre-puberty and then later on SRS when you aren't looking 

[GhostTown11]

Hormones pre-puberty and then later on SRS when you aren't looking 

Hey no sneaking!

[Nero]

If you had SRS pre-puberty, wouldn't that sort of negate the HRT issue? No need for an anti-androgen and you would need to take estrogen to prevent bone issues. Even if you had no estrogen (or T for us guys), pre-puberty SRS would prevent those nasty masculinization (feminization) effects.

[GhostTown11]

If you had SRS pre-puberty, wouldn't that sort of negate the HRT issue? No need for an anti-androgen and you would need to take estrogen to prevent bone issues. Even if you had no estrogen (or T for us guys), pre-puberty SRS would prevent those nasty masculinization (feminization) effects.

Well what i meant was imagine a magical transfairy came to you and said I can either give you hrt pre puberty, but doing so would mean never in your life would you get srs, or I could give you srs for free but only nce you have been on hrt post puberty. Needless to say, this transfairy ain't the most popular gal at the party.

[Nero]

Well, in that case, probably HRT.

[V M]

Interesting question

Because if a MtF had SRS pre-puberty then they would not suffer the effects of T and the HT rather than HRT (There would not be a need to replace the T because it would not be prevalent) would continue their feminine development

Hrt first, then SRS, then resumed HRT may not completely eliminate the effects of T

But could a child make such a decision at such a young age?

[Joelene9]

  I did wake up as a child wondering if my body had changed to a female's.  It just got more masculine, even though I was skinny as a rail.  If that option of HRT for minors was available in 1965, I would've chose it.  However, that 4 year hitch in the Navy in 1971-1975 was the highlight of my life thus far. 
  Joelene